“The City”
“Lily in London” by Beatrice Brandini
Even the appointment of London “has seen some nice” (in all senses) … Beutiful collections but especially a good energy! If there is one thing to recognize to the British fashion is to be creative never mind trends, to please everyone, to conform, to compromise as those represented by blackmail commercial and distribution. The British fashion is FREE, no coincidence here is that she was born a miniskirt, mods, punk, new romantic …… Read more
Film poster “New York New York” by M. Scorsese
“Scarlett in New York” by Beatrice Brandini
We have not yet put the first coat, the first pair of socks or boots … that already in the world there are the fashion show for next spring-summer 2015 … A New York start before moving to London, Milan and finally to Paris. Read more
Design by René Gruau
“Friends” by Beatrice Brandini
“If the little black dress is right, there isn’t that can compete”. Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
“You are never too much or too little elegant in a black dress”. Karl Lagerfeld Read more
Takashi Murakami: “Flower Ball 3D Pink”, 2007
“Yuki in the Murakami’s woods”
I can’t not love this artist so playful, colorful, cartoony, imaginative ……, author of the eyes and floral patterns unmistakable. With his art allows me to go back in time, in a fantastic island that (surely deluding myself) I think can “protect” me from the ugliness of the world … Read more
René Gruau tempera on paper, private collection
“Silvie” Beatrice Brandini
One of the greatest illustrators of the last century, perhaps of all time, René Gruau, with his brushwork, his bold strokes but always poetic, has illustrated the fashion and luxury of the twentieth century. Read more
Charles M. Schulz “Sempre tu..” Bur, 1978 Rizzoli
“Monica” di Beatrice Brandini
I read that in the world the people who have red hair are disappearing, I’m sorry because I think that this color, especially in women, is a special, something beautiful that makes them “special”. Read more
Collage catwalk A / W 2014-15
Mood by Beatrice Brandini
In a few weeks we will be back at full speed, work, home, school, change of cabinets season, courses for children … jumping as athletes from side to side, hoping not to neglect anything, with the knowledge to do it always.
But there is something beautiful and exciting in the change of season, especially among what separates the Summer from Fall and Winter from Spring it is FASHION. Whether you can completely revamp your wardrobe, or you can simply buy a facsimile of the bag of your dreams …., fashion is always with you and can make you dream again …
Franco Mauro Franchi “Great Aurora”
“Anita” by Beatrice Brandini
In Livorno at the Villa Trossi-Uberti, until August 31, there is a beautiful exhibition of Franco Mauro Franchi: “Excursions to the Great Mother.” Sculptures, drawings and paintings. Read more
Tom Wesselmann “Smoker no.1”, 1967 MoMa New York
“Claire” by Beatrice Brandini
For me art has to “shake”, which is a thought, a doubt, it’s all good, as long as it is not indifference… Read more
Sketch Anna Anni, private collection
“The Duchess” by Beatrice Brandini
In high school I had the good fortune to have a great teacher, rigorous, capable, creative, authoritative, reserved, and above all generous, the generosity of those who excel in their field or profession and not did they make a boast but rather share it and gives it to others: this “teacher” (from the Latin magister = master, union of magis = large + the comparative suffix – ter, therefore etymologically “the largest) was called Anna Anni and she was a costume designer famous all over the world. Read more
